British - Journalist | August 15, 1950 -
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.
Peter York
ArtArchitectureDesignAesthetic
In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.
StarsScienceHealthQualityAmerica
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
MistakesLearnNeverOverPleasure
When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: 'Who is doing it?' Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.
AlonePeopleWorldDoingLivingAsk
The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can't be doing with Johnnie Boden's cheery Sloane jokes, his spots and stripes, his occasional 'if it's me, it's U' loud colours.
PeopleMeWorldBlackBetterDoing
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
ArchitectureDesignJewellery
Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.
CityLawProudShortMediaHouse
In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs - monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism - have been working their way through the culture ever since.
FutureCulturePeopleBlameWayBig
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
WorldRock And RollRockHamburger
For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them.
MoneyMeLovedYouSayWay
Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.
MenJobThinkPresentPowerfulNew
Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).
LifePeopleFashionThinkLookNice
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Peter York quotes